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(No Model.) 2 Sheets-Sheet 1.

W. H. JOHNSON.

NECK YOKE RING.

No. 406,914. Patented July 16, 1889.

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(No Model.) 2 Sheets-Sheet 2.

W. H. JOHNSON.

NECK YOKE RING.

No. 406,914. Patented July 16, 1889.

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UNITED STATES PATENT ()FFICE.

\VILLIAM II. JOHNSON, OF DELHI, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO MARCUSO. LANDON, OF SAME PLACE.

NECK-YOKE RING.

SPECIFICATION forming part Of Letters Patent No. 406,914., dated July16, 1889.

Application filed April 20, 1889. Serial No. 308,032. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern: passed through the roller and the eye of theBe it known that I, \VILLIAM II. JOHNsON, a neck-yoke, welded. As shown,the roller is citizen of the United States, residing at Delhi, castinequal halves, and the respective halves in the county of Delaware andState of New are formed with a semi-cylindrical body por- 5 York, haveinvented certain new and useful tion a, having a wide flange b at rightangles Improvements in Neck Yoke Rings and to the longitudinal axis ofthe roller D. The

Ercast-Strap Drum Rollers; and I do hereby outer surface of each of thehalves is straight declare the following to beafull, clear, and exanduniform from flange to flange, while the act description of theinvention, such as will interior, surface, which forms one-half of theIO enable others skilled in the art to which it appassage for the ringO, is irregular, being pertains to make and use the same. flared at eachend for a portion of the length My invention consists, mainly,in an imofthe roller, as shown at c c, and shouldered proved new article ofmanufactureviz.,aholat (Z, so as to form a chamber (1 all around lowroller for a breast-strap and neck-yoke between said flared ends 0 c, asshown. The

15 ring, said roller having a passage through it flared portions 0 c areconcentric with the for the neck-yokering, which passage is flared ring0, while the chambered portion d may at each end concentrically withsaid ring, and be parallel with the outer periphery of the between saidflared bearing ends is made parroller. By this construction the ring hasa allel or is chambered all around, so as to isobearing only upon theconcentric flared por- 20 late the ring from the interior surface of thetions of the roller, and thus undue friction is barrel of the rollerexcept at those points avoided; and by having spaced bearing-surwhere,by reason of corresponding concenfaces the one roller may be used to alimited tricity of the roller and ring, a contact is alextent for ringsof different thicknesses and lowed, thus affording room for the curve ofdiameter. On one of the halves forming the 25 the ring between thepoints of contact, rerollerdrum integral perforated lugs f are ducingfriction, and adapting the roller for provided on each of the flanges,and in the rings of diiferent thicknesses and diameters. flanges of theother half holes are formed, and

My invention also consists in the said roller when the ring 0 and thehalves are placed made with the peculiar passage described and together,as shown, screws or other fastenin gs 0 having flanges at right anglesto its longig are passed through the lugs and flanges, and

tudinal axis and quite broad, so as to posi the whole thereby securelyunited.

tively retain the breast-strap in a flatwise po- At mac in Fig. 1 I haveillustrated by dotted sition upon the barrel of the roller. The saidlines that the chamber might be made longer roller, made with thepeculiar passage and by making each of the bearings c c shorter, S5flanges described, may be cast in one piece or this being done bycutting away those porcast in halves with lugs and perforations andtions of the bearings c 0 extending from a: to said halves united andsecured upon the ring 00 on each side of the vertical transverse axis byscrews or other fastenings: of the roller and forming the chamberorpar-In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is allel innersurface between thepoints it w, in-

40 a vertical central section of my improved stead of between :0 01:.

drum roller applied on a neck-yoke ring and \Vhat I claim iswithbreast-strap attached to it, and Fig. 2 is 1. The within-describedimproved article of an end view of the same. Fig. 3 is a permanufacture,consisting of a flanged roller spective view illustrating my inventionas in for the neck-yoke ring and breast-strap of 9 5 use. harness, saidroller being formed with a pas- A in the drmviugs represents an ordinarysage through it which is flared concentrically neck-yoke,l3 an ordinarybreast-strap, and C with the ring at each end, and provided with anordinary breast-strap and neck-yoke ring. an interior annular groovebetween said flared D is my improved drum roller, cast, prefcrends,substantially as described.

50 ably, in two parts, as shown; but it may be 2. Thewithin-describedimproved article of cast in one piece and the ring,after being manufacture, consisting of the flanged roller for theneck-yoke ring and breast-strap of the whole united upon the ring bysuitable harness, said roller being formed of halves, fastenings,substantially as described. IO the flanges of one half being providedwith In testimony whereof Iaffix my signature in perforated lugs and ofthe other half With presence .of two Witnesses.

5 perforations, and the passage for the ring he WILLIAM H. JOHNSON.

ing flared concentrically with the ring at each Vitnesses: end andprovided With an interior annular G. E. MARVINE,

groove between said concentric portions, and O. A. FooTE.

